Oleg Nitz schrieb:
> The "shadow" package provides the following defaults:
> "useradd -m" created home directory with 755 permissions
> "adduser" created home directory with 711 permissions
> I believe that home directories must be created with 700 permissions.

There are no must's in that case, depending on the context, any of the
above settings makes sense.

> To achieve this I've changed UMASK from 022 to 077 in /etc/login.defs 

That will lead to fatal breakage for many people.

> I propose to make these changes in the "shadow" package. But before 
> adding this feature request to http://bugs.archlinux.org/ I would like 
> to hear your opinions, maybe there is some good reason for having 
> current defaults?

I think your defaults are rather insane, I don't think we should change
them globally.

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature

_______________________________________________
arch mailing list
arch@archlinux.org
http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch

Reply via email to